pheonixRN

Our company has sent a memo allowing us to dress up for Halloween and is even making a contest of it. Several nurses are really disgusted with the idea saying it is completely unprofessional. I've never dressed up for work, but I don't really care if others do. What is your view on the issue?

Graduated 2 years ago, I am an "older nurse" lol at age 32. I have been working on a busy M/S unit since I graduated. I try to stay active when not at work, although my work should count as 10 days worth of cardio. Started getting strange palpitations about 6 months ago. I drink a lot of coffee, so I figure caffeine and go on about my busy life and they got worse, so I made an appt. with the cardiologist who put me on an event monitor for 2 weeks, and I still haven't heard about that, but he had me do a stress echo and during the exam the girl had the monitor where I couldn't see it and she kept saying "are you okay? Are you having chest pains? lol... I say "Should I be???" lol. She says, you sure are throwing off a LOT of PVCs.... Errrrr. Figures. Then she says (and forgive me but I am pretty sure this is the last thing a health care professional should ever do) well usually we don't see PVCs during the stress test unless there is a blockage somewhere but he will let you know when he sees you in two weeks. WTH girl?? I was annoyed but went on my way.... Shift nurses, how is your health? What do you do to stay healthy? Do you lay off the caffeine? I am stressed as we all are but at my age, and my wnl bp, the last thing I was expecting at my age is issues with the ticker.